The Labor enquirer., 1887-08-06
"Psaes."
ON THE RIVER.
What Socialists Have Done
When Left to Them
selves.
ON THB BOOMING KAVEAH.
They Bridge the Torrents Of Wrath
and Tunnel the Hills Of
Fear.
For the Enquirer.

8tedt 0lotfa NeV6Oa, ~ tno D0oe OF MT.
Sillimsn and his brothers, who faunt
their feecy mantles of eternal snog1n the
very eyes Of the tropical valley sun, there
is a canon known for two hundred years
as MrvGnd the place Of rest.
From it for three generations the Ute
chiefs took their names, and to it they
came to be consecrated in the Giant For
est, and to rest and loaf, and chew the
succulent acorn by the side of the rushing
waters.
"White man no ketchum him; axe no
big enough" said old Chief Kaweah in
1870, as he stood beside the giant tree of
the world, old "Karl Marx" in the forest
at the headwaters of the east branch of
the northerm fork. mo die here at all,-
blow away like smoke when Great Spirit
calls" continued the native American,
folding his ragged blanket around his
lean and wolfsh form. "My people all
gone; too much whushky; too much
Stockton; stay um valley, no come to hills.
Chief 60 soon. Come here summer time,
ketchum fish; killum bear, findum honey,
Injun eat. Plenty water, plenty game.
KA-wAYN-Yo! bully place; no die here
blow away
Sami mutt, sami multi,
Oh-e-lai!
Oh-e.lai!
Who-o! Who-o! who-o.r
|. If there be a heaven upon earth it is
here. Magnificent vistas of mountain
and plain, boulders and battlemental
crags that pierce the skies, and, between,
soft glades spangled with flowers; cloud
less skies above, and below the mighty
Kaweah river with its rush and whirl of
angry waters-an Indian name, Ka-we-ah,
meaning, "Here we rest" One can well
imagine the grunt of contentment with
which the braves of century ago uttered
it, as they reached its clear, cold waters,
its sylvan shades, after their dusty desert
marches inward from the sea.
Here are nine thousand acres of timber
land, five thousand acres of agricultural
and six or seven thousand of grazing
land, boundless supply of water for ir-
rigation and power purposes, hundreds of
living springs, mineral springs as we'll as
pure cold water, a river full of fish, hills
full of game, qusrries of lime, limestone,
marble (colored and white), mountain
of iron, seams of gold quartz, and timber
in unlimited quantity. Here is climate
where the orange and the apple grow side
by side, and where almost every thing will
grow.
At the entrance to the canon were cliffs
of granite which until three years ago
saved it alike from the settler and specu.
lator. And between the cliffs, which rose
from the waters edge, roared unfordable
and uncontrolled, the mad North Fork.
All, river of wrath and mountains OF
fear! Well were ye placed at the gates Of
Paradise to keep its precincts for chosen
people!
They are there now and neither man
nor the children of men can dislodpe
them. They have cut through the noun
tains, bridged the rivers, shattered the
precipices and planted the uplands green
with waving corn.
Here in this beautiful spot pioneer
corps Of thirty is busily at work prepar
ing the way for tho main body of people
who will settle there next year. Two
hundred and fifty families is the limit
picked people all, from every state of the
union; men and women who know wha
they want and how to get it; people who
will not be overcrowded and who propose
to put into practice the bravest, best ant
truest methods of living for themselves
and for their children. Over a hundred
applications have been received from
Denver alone; of these but seventeen
were elected to membership, p,-throughout
the union the proportion has been the
same.
It is true that there are resources herr
sufficient to support 1000 families aAt
more. But the aim of this colony is no
a mere support, struggle, living; it
aim is wealth and the making Of new mel
and women, and the building of paradise
anew on earth. Here then but the few
can be chosen.